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It's a long shot but I'm sure the ANC will make it stick.
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How Eskom was destroyed
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Herr der Verboten
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Ted Blostradamus got you covered
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@TheChamp please remind him how Ramaphosa is going to save the day.
Also explains to him that transformation takes time.
I'm shocked (except during #LoadShitting) that Jan van Riebeeck was not responsible for Eskom's systematic destruction and that it was in fact the cANCer that destroyed Eskom and gave us #LoadShitting.
WaxLyrical
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I can recall massive load shedding back in 2008, actually worse than we have now.
This company was fcked in the 90's.
This company was fcked in the 90's.
LazyLion
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The ANC sailed the ship off the edge of a cliff.
How about MyBB hosting a live interview between the two of them.
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They have been really good at employing people that would otherwise not be employed?
Fulcrum29
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Two posts doesn't validate a suggestion. Use your main to make demands.
No, de Ruyter won't give you the straight answer, he will answer the question within Eskom's best interests, which will also be in the state's best interest, which is simple public relations.
Kudos to MyBB if they can make that happen, or at least a set of written questions via an open letter from TB to ADR to answer ? Lets see who has got the balls to participate !
Herr der Verboten
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Flat earther?
Adeptus Mechanicus
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Not alone, but there is sufficient historical facts that demonstrated that the NATS, at the end of their tenure, purposely ignored their internal findings on the need for more generation capacity in a post-Apartheid SA. This was the same findings that were presented to the ANC soon after 1994, which were also summarily ignored as they had "bigger fish to fry"...like changing street names.
Not an expert opinion by any means, but I did spend a few years contracted to Eskom in the late 2000's/early 2010's. I also have a good few friends, some family and ex-colleagues currently still in the company who I get insight from on a regular basis.
In terms of whether there is anything positive that I've heard it would be that the separation of the Generation, Transmission and Distribution into individual entities appears to be moving along at a good pace despite union interference. If successful this would go a long way to dismantle the generation monopoly and free the other 2 entities from the debt incurred by Generation, freeing them to operate as profit centers. There also appears to be a view for Eskom to diversify its business in providing non-energy supply products.
None of the above however would have any short-term positive impact on the need for load-shedding. Unfortunately that will not go away any time soon.
Won't happen and even if it did De Ruyter would not jeopardize his position by speaking his mind and Blom, always out for blood, would be incapable of a constructive discussion.
The load-shedding of 2008 was due to decades of poor planning. What followed, during the Zuma years, was full scale looting and exorcising of much of the expertise that kept the company afloat. The company is in a FAR worse position now than it was in 2008.
If Van Riebeeck hadn't landed in SA there would be no Eskom. If Eskom didn't exist we wouldn't have load-shedding. Therefore Van Riebeeck caused load-shedding.
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We should also consider that when Eskom was doing so well, it was not supplying electricity to most of the population of South Africa.
Herr der Verboten
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There.
wingnut771
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What's your point?
Demand today is almost the same as it was 25 years ago and they can't even keep the lights on, even after increasing the price 500%.
viva ANC viva!
Not directly related to Eskom but the way the Mbeki ANC, and then the Zupta ANC, applied AA and BEE to benefit their family and friends has, in my view, done a major disservice to black people. It is quite often stated that "AA or BEE" or "black people" caused "the problem", implying blanket corruption and incompetence in Eskom, other SOE's. municipalities etc. The end result can be (I am being careful here) that say black engineers are all viewed as being of limited competence and/or integrity (excluding those from Zim of course - that is for Mr Champ).
This is obviously not true and I believe that, given equality, there is no correlation between race and competence. But sadly what I see is many well qualified and smart engineers struggling as they have been placed in a position for which they do not have the experience and, as the corrupt ANC AA system started from the top, do not have much hope of being mentored and/or gaining really meaningful and valuable experience. Quite similar with BEE and tenders.
This is obviously not true and I believe that, given equality, there is no correlation between race and competence. But sadly what I see is many well qualified and smart engineers struggling as they have been placed in a position for which they do not have the experience and, as the corrupt ANC AA system started from the top, do not have much hope of being mentored and/or gaining really meaningful and valuable experience. Quite similar with BEE and tenders.
MrGray
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I had first hand experience working closely within various departments at Eskom as a contractor. Starting in the early to mid 2000s they aggressively cleansed all departments of their most qualified and experienced white personnel under the guise of BEE, indiscriminately replacing managers with people who seemed to bear no affinity or experience for their roles.
One particular department I worked with went from being globally recognized in its field to a standing joke in the period of 2 years. A junior intern was promoted to run the department over several highly respected long serving PhDs as she was the girlfriend of some senior manager elsewhere in Eskom. All they do now is struggle to produce the same reports they did 15 years ago and there has been zero development or innovation, only decline.
One particular department I worked with went from being globally recognized in its field to a standing joke in the period of 2 years. A junior intern was promoted to run the department over several highly respected long serving PhDs as she was the girlfriend of some senior manager elsewhere in Eskom. All they do now is struggle to produce the same reports they did 15 years ago and there has been zero development or innovation, only decline.